Thanks to all of you. Very helpful. I'm eager to receive the camera and process the films.
Le mercredi 8 décembre 2010, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> a écrit : > I had the C330 for a bit way back in the 1970s. > > There is a 'top of frame' indicator needle. As you focus closer, it > drops to show where the top of the frame for a given focusing distance > would be. So you focus and frame, then raise the camera vertically to > put the top edge of the frame along the indicator line. The shift is > only large when you're working in the very close range, for a normal > to wide lens. With the tele lenses it becomes a bit more significant > ... best to frame a little loose. Plenty of negative to work with so > shoot loose and crop ... :-) > > Mamiya made a gizmo for the tripod that worked with the indicator too. > The indicator had a scale of numbers, IIRC, and you could easily raise > the camera with gizmo to the number once you achieved proper focus. > > For me, the C330 was always a tripod camera. Held with pistol grip and > porroflex viewfinder, it was a large and heavy beast to tote around. > For any hand-held work, I far preferred a Rolleiflex TLR (which had a > more sophisticated parallax compensation built into the viewfinder > system albeit for a fixed lens with a more limited close focusing > range). > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Jeffery Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> As I recall, the C330 deals with parallax by having a needle enter the >> viewfinder field, cropping part of the field that would be cropped due to >> parallax. Not very sophisticated, but it worked. >> >> Jeffery >> >> >> On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:25 AM, P N Stenquist wrote: >> >>> I had Mamiyaflex C2 and a C220. I always wanted the C330, which has some >>> sort of parallax correction, so the upper lens shows you the frame for the >>> lower lens. Shot with the TLR for many years and made quite a bit of money >>> with it. I used just the 80mm lens for most of that time, but later added >>> the 250mm. It takes a while to get used to seeing things reversed in the >>> viewinder. That was especially difficult shooting pans of race cars, >>> because they came through my viewfinder from the wrong end! But it was a >>> great camera, and the lenses were excellent for the time. >>> Paul >>> On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Thibouille wrote: >>> >>>> Got myself (not arrived yet) a Mamiya C330 TLR (with 80/2.8) for a >>>> couple reasons: >>>> >>>> * I want to do film >>>> * Medium format >>>> * 6x4,5 is bigger than 35mm but if going MF, just do it completely. >>>> 6x4,5 is somewhat small IMO >>>> * The challenge of using a TLR, waist level finder (although prism is >>>> available as well) >>>> * The challenge of square format, 6x6 >>>> * Interchangeable lenses on a TLR (quite rare) >>>> * Mechanical beast, easier to repair than electronic ones if it needs to. >>>> >>>> Now, I know Darren have one, he wrote so a couple weeks ago. >>>> Darren and others, what could you advise as for usage of such cameras? >>>> Like usage with or without tripod, what kind of subjects, 120 film >>>> handling etc. >>>> >>>> Thank you much. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs >>>> ---------------------- >>>> Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, >>>> DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... >>>> Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 >>>> Programing: Delphi 2009 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs ---------------------- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
